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The present study reports the experimental evaluation of a training procedure, termed microconsultation, for transmitting a set of interview skills for using behavior modification with teachers. An eight-week summer workshop for experienced school psychologists was conducted with a randomly selected group of 30 trainees who underwent the experimental training procedure. Posttest measures of interview techniques at the end of the eight weeks and after a two-month interval in the trainees' home school districts found significant changes in the predicted direction over control groups receiving videotape exposure and no experimental contact.Consulting with teachers and administrators regarding pupil adjustment is rapidly becoming the service most often requested of psychologists by school personnel. Such consultation not only can lead to improvement in pupil learning but can increase the competency of the classroom teacher to recognize and resolve behavior problems independently (Bower, 1955; Savage, 19S9). The goal of consultation is to help the teacher, parent, or others to perform their function fully and effectively.

Employing a 2 X 2 X 3 factorial design, 144 children participated in an investigation of the independent and interactive effects of three types of reinforcement, two age levels, and two social classes on the conditioning of the use of one of four pronouns in the construction of sentences. Awareness of the reinforcement contingency was determined by an interview. A three-way interaction between age level, social class, and type of reinforcement was not significant. However, two significant two-way interactions were obtained. In addition, awareness of reinforcement contingencies significantly facilitated conditioning.'This article is based on a thesis submitted by the first author, under the second author's supervision, to San Jose State College in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the master's degree.a Requests for reprints should be sent to Dwight

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